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Title: First combined measurement of the muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross section without pions in the final state at T2K

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
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This paper presents the first combined measurement of the double-differential muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross sections with no pions in the final state on hydrocarbon at the off-axis near detector of the T2K experiment. The data analyzed in this work comprise 5.8 × 10$^20$ and 6.3 × 10$^20$ protons on target in neutrino and antineutrino mode respectively, at a beam energy peak of 0.6 GeV. Using the two measured cross sections, the sum, difference, and asymmetry were calculated with the aim of better understanding the nuclear effects involved in such interactions. The extracted measurements have been compared with the prediction from different Monte Carlo generators and theoretical models showing that the difference between the two cross sections have interesting sensitivity to nuclear effects.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
T2K Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; SAPPJ-2014-00031; 19-12-00325; LCF/BQ/IN17/11620050; RISE-RISE-GA822070-JENNIFER2 2020; RISE-GA872549-SK2HK; 713673; 754496; ANR-19-CE31-0001; 20-32-70196; SC0008475
OSTI ID:
1631757
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1637948; OSTI ID: 1673768
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 101, Issue 11; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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